The Sun. — London, England, 1809-11-17 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN, srn, • There can hardly be a man of refletiicin and libe rality among us, who deee wit look .with alarm, as well as mortification, atehe disgrace which is likely to fall on the national character, in consequence of those scandalohs outrages which have occurred so many weeks . in Covent-garden Theatre. _lf the Proprietors of that theatre had been disposed to act upop mean and narrow. principles, they would not ham exposed themselves to the unworthy treatment which they have experienced. Theta was no call upon them to build such a magnificent edifice as they. have ereaed ; but they were evidently im pressed with a due sense of the national character, and they •resolved to bring forward a place 'worthy of our Dramatic Muses, and suiteble to the - dignity of the country. That they have.been guilty of iM prudence, even their friends must be ready to ac knowledge. They were imprudent in engaging Ca talani at such an enormous charge, but it :was an int,- prudence of , which the public had no reason to complain, for they would have had an opportunity Of hearing, at, a cheaper :rate than they could any where else, one of the first vocal performers that the world has ever heard. . Considering the vast sum whieh the Managers were to have paid this performer, it is impossible to supposeehat the Pro- Prietors would have profited by her services, so that the risk would have been their own, and the public would have enjoyed all the pleasure. The Proprie tors may also be thought to have aced wrorgly, in not announcing their intention ot raising the prices of admission for some time before the opening of the theatre, and submitting some statement to the public, which might have prepared them for such a Measure; as, upon a due statement, it might be con ceived that there would be found too.much regard for justice and liberality among our countrymen, for therri to resist a regulation which, if . successful, would mill have only afforded the Proprietors an in terest mutt) below what is known to be the fair rate in mercantile transaatioos , But how was it possible to conceive that such brutal outrages would have prevailed, and have rendered such a statement necessary ; coill'd• it he imagined, that, after an explicit submission of their aacounts to a body of as respectable and as able Men, as the coun try can produce; and having obtained a decision in their favour, those brutal outrages should have been increased ten-fold ? Toe scenes that have taken place every night are so shOcking, that we ought to be ashamed of a people who can quietly suffer them to continue. Never can it be supposed that the wild herd who every night assemble at that place, who utter the most offensive language, and are guilty of the most riotous ptoceolings, are of the legitimate race of Ehg:iiilimen No, they-..must be impreg nated with every (out noeeeeehat could arise atom low democratical feeling., ;Web es levelled the Throne Of France with the diest,emurdered her vir tuous 'Agonarch, his uefortunateConsort, and other members of hie illustrious family, and spread blood and desolation wherever they appeared. We see that the unmanly tribes who pour in at ball price, force'their way to:the centre of the pit, and • push elown, without mercy, every body in their nay, without having the least .regard to that sex •which has always found protection among true English men. Such brutes, it-would be a profanation of the word to call them men, might be expected, if there were an opening for the full indulgence of their feelings, to gratify themselves in ell the excesses of the Gallic Ile:vs:Action. 'We may naturally asle, what is become of Tue Tow N, when such persons can, night after night, be suffered to proceed in so riotous a course. Once there was a body o€ reso lute but candid melt, eharaaerised by the name, of THE TOWN, who stood up in defehce of the proper' rights of the public, :n who, ..iliOugh they firmly resisted any attempts or the Managers to fence dull peas, insipidity, or empty show upon 'them, would not suffer the secret enetniea iirihe theatre, or of any individuals, to coetroul their judgment, and disturb their entertainments. If such a body DOW existed, • thopgre they Might resist the intention of the Proprietors toraise the price of admission, 'or el fefl any other novel regulation, they u ould not ma nifest their repeosition.ie the haae and brutal mariner which the - party who' now rule- the theatre have, adopted. No, Siie if Tuts-Town,-as it formerly ex isted, were now. to exert ~itself in cpposition to the Proprietors, they would employ manly ways. We should then see men of . sense and education step forward as champions for the pehlic cause, require the Manager to co:ee forward, eropose their com plaints with temper and digeityj'eulasecure for him, in answer, a candid and entiant i;earieg e :We should noothen have bee:, dhgestee Hitt: theignorance and noesense of those weo hale . ttitherto appeared as speakers, but who, it' otus: be ieltreeeledged, were suitable to-their audience, _ since all weir senselesi harangues were receie'ed with the loudest shouts of applau-e, from the surrounding rabble. That the Denroctatical Juurhais of this country should-abet the cause of these rioters is not wenderful, because the latter arc only carrying into_ practice the aims of ate writers, and none will deny that the cloven-foot of Jac' binism has been ,Seen amidst_ the tumults.-- The City of Bath has set a proper example : to the Metropolis. A few- malignant persons attempted. to raise a dist urbatice . in the theatre ot that. place, on the appearance of Catalani, but the good sense, the justice, the liberality of the audience in, general, subdued the malecontents at once, and obliged them to as with propriety, or leave the theatre. It is indeed probable that hardly any place would have suffered such disgraceful proccediege to continue, but - the Metropolis, which might. rather have been expected to hold forth an example of decorhm, candour, and justice, to the whole 'kingdom.— Surely THE TOWN cannot be dead, difficult as it is tee suppose that it sleepeth amidst such a scene of nightly uproar. Let us then hope, S:r, that Trig Town will rouse itself from its present torpor, and not suffer its , name to be usurped by noisy and ig norant blockheads, but that •it will . pet an end to proceedings which are so disgraceful to us e ttedweic it permitted to continue, Will justify toe appellation that Voltaire to iMpudently cast upon us, ween , he deoonneated the British people the SAVAGES of Eu- He indeed admitted that his own coontry- Ince are a mixed rare of tygets an.; monkies, a lace that may .welt be though: to have sent a colony among es, by those who have e itilessed the treat () eut which wo. en _have received in the it of Cu- it OPE. vent-garden Theatre, and the contemptible buf: fconery of the 0. P. Danceon the benches. tiuttLlUS, MAILS. ARSZTVID-2. Dublin, r Wateford. A 2 Waterford. D st—a, G ottenburgh, S PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAV AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. COII9OIS - . 69 7 ; 70 j OMOILIOI - - - 4 pr. r E s UN. SOLIM QVIS' DVCARE FALSUM , AtIDEAT ? L 0 ND 0 lv, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1809. Tlie following Extras of . a Letter from Vienna, dated on the 21st ult. is .given in the Hanturgh Correspondenten of the 4th inst. " It is belived that General ANDREOSSY will re- . main here as French Minister. The Fiench troops ' ai e to leave Vienna on' the 13th of November. • It is . said that the Emperor FRANCIS is to be here on the 161 h, but he wilLnot remzin long in Vienna, as he ; ! Intends to go to: ,Prague, where the Palace is already prepared for• him. The harbour of Porto Re is to be declared a free port, and the trade of Aus►ria will be favoured in her late maritime territories. " The Grand Duke of Nassau's troops marched hence yesterday for Spain. - A great number of troops are marching toward's 'Gratz, and other ; places in that quarter; they are .probably destine: to take possession of the territories ceded by Austria. " Our Gazette of this day contains the following Proclathation : " Tbis , nfternoon ibe following notificatiOn was made : The•Publie are hereby in►ormed that the Ratifi cations of - the-Treaty of Peacu, concluded. between his. Majesty The Emperor of Austria, King of Bo hemia and Hungary, and his Majesty the Emperor of the French, King of Italy, were exchanged this forenoon. ` RANDOLPH Count Von WRBNA: • Vienna, O. 20, 1809. We have made a few more extraas from some German Papers which — arrived last night, but they will be found to contain little that is important.--, The Russians, if we may credit the accounts in these . ,papers; ale very successful in their operations against the Turks, and it is rumoured, but we know nut up on what foundation, that the _French have reg,lined, their ascendancy at Constantinople, and that Mr. Avant has been ordered to quit that City. It has been generally suppose:l that the purpose of the Meeting of C rdinals, which is about t take place at Paris, is to remove the POPE, and to appoint Cardinal FESCH, BUONAPARTE'S uncle, his successor. A rumour of this kind was prevalent long before the Holy Father was deprived of his sacred function, and drit en to Avignon'; but we are informed, in a very respeCtable quarter, that this is not the s4,le, purpbse of the Meeting, but that the chief OjeE't in view is to dissolve the marriage between BcoNa .‘ PARTE and JOSEPHINE, preparatory to his union with the Princess of Saxony. This is not the first time that a rutnour has been heard of BUONAPALITE'S in tention to get rid of his present wife, and to ally himself with some ancient Royal Family, 'As the King of Saxony is atm at Fontainbleau, it is strongly snspeded that the main purpose of his visit is to give his san4ion .to the intended marriage. It is stated in . some of the Letters recently re ceived from the Continent, that BUO NAPA RTE has suddenly adopted a new line of policy. Instead of the marked' contempt with which lie has for stune time' treated him, he has lately treated Mr. ARM STRONG with marks of particular attention, and it is supposed that. he has made some propositions .to America, for Mr. ARMSTRONG, within a very few days, sent off a vessel.from Dieppe with dispatches. The Times haS now put The finishing stroke to its misrepresentations respeaing Milford, by a neat ar ticle, not from the pan of the former writer, but by the learned man who furnisheS what is - called the leading-paragraphs." We have also done, and only request of our Readers to bear in mind the whole o f our statement, pledging ourselves that it will be found correct in all its parts. We cannot, however, forbear laying before our Readers the following com parative statement, wh ich clearly points Out.t hat near as now, -,ships of war were :heaper than another ports. fifty years ago, as wet built at Milford tuba ( Ships' heie ••Names. I built. 74 Guns. Robust . . Invincible When Ton Total 1 Cost per built. nage Cost. Ton. - -- 1 4. , ,4. s. d. 1624 27,751 l'l7 , 5 9 5635 18,444 I 57 8 9 Harwich Riv, Thames Canada . . . Wedlwicll. . Russel • hiv. Tharues Monarch . Depttind . P.ofWales Mn;ord . . 1 764 17c$i 1-765 1 1605 28,988 176 ) 4 , 16412 I 31,908 162 2 9,1 1, 794 63 1 16.11 z 5,261 Is, 1 2, (18 2 10 19 17 Thus we see that the Pr.nce of Wales was built At Aliiford eape by 24941. tan the lowest,,,u4 by 66471, thao he highest in the above'lst., As for the poor au who. signs, himself VERAX, he is quite beneath notice, except,. perhaps, 01 the milliners in St. James's-,street, frau whence lie chuses to date this letter. We are unable to communicate to our Readers any positive intelligence respetaing the reported ac tion in the Mediterranean ; the report, however, continues to prevail in Holland : two Gentlemen who left Rotterdam on the loth state, that it was then universally believed .that the French had been defeated. Yesterday his Royal highness the Prince of WALES entertained a seleEt party with an elegant dinner, at Carleidti-honse. , Yesterday - Iris Royal Highness the Duke of YORK gave a grand dinner to a large party of Military gen- - tlemen, at his house, Stable-yard, St. James's. Yesterday her Royal Highness the Princesi of WA Les paid a morning visit to their Royal HighnesseS. Princess CHARLOTTE Of WALES and Duchess ctfi BRUNSWICK, and returned to Kensington Palace to. dinner. • Yesterday afternoon a Cabinet 'Council was held at the Foreign Office, which was attended by .the .following Members LORD CHANCELLOR, Earls LIVERPOOL, CHATHAM, BATHURST, and HAR.4 RGwItY ; Lord MULGRAYE and the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER. The Officers of the Artillery of • the King's Ger man Legion 'gave a . farewell 'ball supper to all the respectable families in Portchester, where this corps has been quartered for these last four years.— It is expected they will march to Guildford, to leave room for the foreign 'depot, bow established at Portchester. . ;;One hundred and twenty horses belonging to the Royal Waggon Train march into 'Portsmouth on the tgth inst. and'embark for Portugal. The East India Company, we understand, have come to a determination to pay for their freightage in future .by bills at three 'mont hs., The report ,which has been for some days in cir cula►ion, that.. Prince Stahremberg had received or ders from his Court to break off all intercourse with the British Government is preMature. The nature Of the treaty between Austria and France renders it highly probable that that' event will shortly take place ; but his Highness has not received any in struaions to that etfed. None of the ships of the line that were driven up the Charante in April last by Lord Gambler's fleet, have made their appearance in Aix Roads ; and it is quite impossible that they should do SO, until their work on the Boyart shoal is completed, which work it is wholly, out of their power to proceed upon w:.ilst our squadron retains the judicious anchorage it occu pies in Basve Roads. Those ships ot the enemy, therefore, as well as any that are bilding, must re 'main harmless during the war. •It is'Aso,a pleasing matter of fact to contemplate, that Brest, which vas hitherto tne cradie it the navy, 'has only a single fri gate ready tor se:i (.7ticl,the• Ulysse, an old Spanish Ali p, broken-backed. as a sneer -hulk) lying in the. Roads, that is y have not timber or stores in the arsenal sufficient to build a corvette.—Yko old three deckers were taken to pieces to enable the fleet to sail troth Brest' in April last, upon their memorable ex peOitton ~ 1 ) Roco,fort. K ing ..Tos ! „ l pti ha'. iti.oed a' De c ree for inc rte. wing -I,r • l'aAro;' hiai Mests. n• ye hi , ",c , •..) een toranclanle o, hunt ws to httu, and he . . prolably expects, b) lness and conciliation, to themloverito ilk . interest. We have alieady mentioned that the design of BUONAPARTE, in -torming the Galliciati Legions, was to enable the German pris , ners under his power to enter into his service without the appearance of Lese Majesle to their forts:'.. Sovereign. We have received some Fr uch Papers, in which !I is stated, that out of 11,000 Austrian prisoners, in the city of Augsburg, the greater part had inlisred into those legions, commanded by Count BRONIKOWSKY. By the same papers; we find that NAPOLEON'S inclina tion to pillage, wherever be goes, for the etnbel lishinent of his palates and his capital, had not for saken him in his late military expedition. A num ber of fierce..quadrupeds, curious birds, and rare •ekolk plants; have been conveyed from the reposi tories of Vienna and gardens of Schoenbrunn, .to supply ,the Menagerieat Malmaison, and the Mu seum of Natural History at Paris. The late Marquis of LANSDOWNE 'had a presenti ment of his approaching end. It was only three days Wore his death that lie observed to a favourite do= mestic, " Happy is tliat than who closes his earth ly-career when in sleep." It was a singular circum stance that he shoUld depart this life in a way most agreeable. to his own wishes;-►—his Lordship died without a groan, at the time when his servant was sitting near the head of the bed, and imagined his master to. have been still asleep.. It was not until .half .an hour afterwards-11)m. the Noble Lord was discover— ed to be dead. The Marehiotiess is inconsolable. The deceased possessed the most unassuming and conci liatory manners ; in. his domestic habits he was be-'. loved by'all his household. A few months since, as he pa•sed the church-yard at Paidington; com menting on the display of a pompous funeral proces. sion, when extended,.frequently, a hundred miles into the country, he ridiculed the idea, and added, " when I die, nay fet my remains be deposited here." lu consequence. of that •request being lately repeated, he body will be deposited there in a vault, over'which a plain mausoleum will be erected to his memory. . By the succession of Lord HENRY PETTY to the Marquisaie of Lansdowne, a vacancy is made in the representation of the University of Cambridge in Parliament. The Irish Catholics are to petition Parliament by Counties.„ and not, as before, by one general Petition. Yesterday the Duke of CUMBERLAND'S Sharp shooters were inspealed in the King's Mews by Lieu tenant-Colonel JiiNkilisON, . who, corning on the ground rather before the time expe6ted, the muster was not so strong as it otherwise would have been ; they, however, assembled in a very respectable man nor, and Lieutenant-Colonel JENKINSON expressed himself in terms of \ approbation .at the appearance of he Corps, and the state in which he found their rifles, the greater part of which are of a very expensive quality ; after the inspection, they went some light evolutions in a lery masterly through some • NAVAL NEWS. PL'YmouTtr, Nov. lb.--Seven French'Caplaiir made their escape from hereon Monday 'night last, in a won boat, but when about the middle of tilt' Sound, they were discovered by some men on board a fishing smack, who immediately gave chace; Frenchmen immediately ran the boat ashore and es caped ; one of them was taken soon after, and a di ligent ,search is making atter the others. Sailed, his Majesty's ship York, of 74 guns, Cap tain BARTON, for the Mediterranean ; and the Phea sant, sloop of war,Captain PALMER, on a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 16.=—Arrived the_ Speedy., JOIIN BAZEN, and the Zephyr, G.Scorr, from Guernsey ; the latter has troops on hoard, bound to .the West Indies; Hope, DAvm JARMIN, frOlll Southampton ; Delight; VIM. YOUNG, from Teign mouth ; Unity, J. GREGORY, from Bridport ; and the Speedy, MARK ALDRIDGE, from London. &He'd the Heart of Oak, SAM. WILLS, for Chep- stow. His Majesty's ship Euryalus has captured and sent into this port, a large French lugger called Le Par, which came into harbour this day. , ' gIiEERNESS,, Nov. 16.—Arrived his Majesty's sloops Rover, Cherokee, Chanticleer, and Monkey gun-brig. It having blown a gale of wind from N. to N. E. these two days, this morning a large brig was dis covered on shore on her beam-ends, off' the south end.Of the Isle of Sh6ppy, between that and Fever• sham, with her foremast only standing. _Came into harbour his Majesty's ship Cerierus, Capt. WHITBY. DOVER, Nov. 16.—The British Hero--trangport. arrived here from Flushing, last night, with troops. His Majesty's cutter Idas, from Hastings, arrive 4 off here, from Flushing, and landed Major-General WYNYARD, and a Measenger, that set off direoY. for London. Eight French privateers were discovered, at day break this morning, off here. It is said they cap.! tared a brig, and two of our ships of war went in chae. DEAL, Nov. 17.--Arrived the Mercurius sloop of. war, with a convoy from the Baltic; Per/airs sloop of war from Dartmouth ; awl Osprey ditto, from Portsmouth ; Peggy schooner, and /day cut," ter hum Fitishing.. LEITH, Nov. I4.—Arrived three Danish stoops, prizes to the Hero cutter, Talbot and Clio sloops war. - On the gth inst. the Jean, of Dundee,, CHRITO! PHEA master, one of the vessels usually employed ta the whale fishery, in taking the Tay from Gotten burgh, with a cargo of timber and iron, got ashore on the Elbowend sand ; she is full of water, and 4 is.thought will be a total 'wreck. The Peggies, of Fiaherrow, CLEGHORN master was wrecked on the Seaw, Igth September last, on, passage from Gottenburgh to Fisherrow all the' crew saved, but made prisoners of war,.and sepc: sixty miles into the interior, The Fanfaron French national brig qi 18 genii and .men, laden with flo u r from . Brest, to Gua-: daloupe;'diias taken the sth inst. by the Emerald Sri gate. { The Emerald has detained the Diana, of and from New-York, for St. Sebastian's lAr!!!ri with cot ton and rice, and arrived at Cork, with both the ves sels on Friday last. The Henrietta, of Baltithore, from Bremen, which was taken the 19th ult. by the Detide, Fren"ch pri vateer, was retaken Me 4th inst. by the Helena, sloop of war, and arrived at Cork the 1 itti inst. M. ANDUAGA, it is expeaed, will embark on -board the Lavinia frigate, which is to set sail' for Cadiz. It will be recollehed, that this Gentleman was the ,Minister of FERDINAND; at the Court of . Louts, in Holland, from whence he escaped with some difficulty, attended by the Spanish Consul:L.-. Soon after he arrived here he .received instrudiont from the , Supreme Junta to remain in London. He is now ordered by the same authority, to proceed to Seville; and it is expe6ted that he will occopy a situation of high rank and responsibility in the Go-. verntinent The Bicedialus,which is going to the East Indies, is ot . -dered to take out the Prince KHAN, who lately arrived a refugee in this count ry,in the Frederickstein, and had previously fled to the Emperor of Morocco for proteElion, when driven from his dominions by a rival Prince. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have been pleased to direct, that the sum of ten pounds, as a gratuity, be given to each of the petty officers and seamen who were employed on board tire-ships at the attack on the enemy's fleet in Basque Roads, on the I ith of April, as a mark of the high sense their Lordships entertain of the , enterprising and gallant condua.of thoe who have merited this I There were entered at the Cu s t om -h c use, Wt-dn.esoy, last, 4750 qriartas of wheat, chiefly from the POrts in the Baltic.